PARKING SUPPORT APPARATUS

• US 20150098624A1
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: SAKAKIBARA, Haruki, HIRATA, Makoto
• Granted Patent: US 9,162,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/104
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 1/26 to the rear of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/305 merging camera image with lines or icons
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 2300/806 for aiding parking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/586 of parking space

Abstract

A parking support apparatus includes: a captured image acquisition unit acquiring a captured image from an image capturing unit which images surrounding scenery of a vehicle; a target destination section setting unit setting a target destination section which is located around the vehicle and at which the vehicle arrives, based on the image; a vertex coordinates calculation unit calculating coordinates of a vertex of the section; an intersection coordinates calculation unit calculating coordinates of the vehicle at an intersection between a parallel line parallel to the vehicle in a width direction and frame lines configuring the section in a top view when the vertex is closer to a center side of the vehicle than the parallel line; and a destination frame superposition unit superposing a destination frame onto the image by linearly connecting positions in the image corresponding to the vertex on a side separated farther from the vehicle than the parallel line among the vertexes, and the intersection.

Claims

1. A parking support apparatus comprising:

a captured image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image from an image capturing unit which images surrounding scenery of a vehicle;

a target destination section setting unit that sets a target destination section which is located around the vehicle and at which the vehicle arrives, based on the captured image;

a vertex coordinates calculation unit that calculates coordinates of a vertex of the target destination section;

an intersection coordinates calculation unit that calculates coordinates of the vehicle at an intersection between a parallel line which is parallel to the vehicle in a width direction and frame lines which configures the target destination section in a top view when the vertex of the target destination section is closer to a center side of the vehicle than the parallel line; and

a destination frame superposition unit that superposes a destination frame onto the captured image by linearly connecting positions in the captured image respectively corresponding to the vertex on a side separated farther from the vehicle than the parallel line among the vertexes of the target destination section, and the intersection calculated by the intersection coordinates calculation unit.

2. The parking support apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the target destination section is a target parking section which is located on the rear side of the vehicle and at which the vehicle is parked, or a reverse start section from which the vehicle starts to reverse toward the target parking section which is located on the rear side of the vehicle and at which the vehicle is parked after proceeding forward from a predetermined position.

3. The parking support apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the parallel line is set to be separated from an end portion of the vehicle being oriented in a proceeding direction of the vehicle.

4. A parking support apparatus comprising:

a captured image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image from an image capturing unit which images surrounding scenery of a vehicle;

a target destination section setting unit that sets a target destination section which is located around the vehicle and at which the vehicle arrives, based on the captured image;

a vertex coordinates calculation unit that calculates coordinates of a vertex of the target destination section;

a vertex setting unit that sets a new vertex in a region in which no portion of the vehicle is present when the vertex of the target destination section is closer to a center side of the vehicle than the parallel line which is parallel to the vehicle in a width direction, based on frame lines which are included in the captured image and overlap no portion of the vehicle, among the frame lines configuring the target destination section; and

a destination frame superposition unit that superposes a destination frame onto the captured image based on the vertex overlapping no portion of the vehicle and the new vertex set by the vertex setting unit, among the vertexes of the target destination section.